Send me email updates about messages I've received
on the site and the latest news from The CafeMom Team.By signing up, you certify that
you are female and accept the Terms of Service and have read the
Privacy Policy.

Female cat/kitten acting weird

She will be a year in April/May. We have had since she was about 3 weeks old. She is indoor only, has never been outside. She is not fixed yet, just have not gotten around to it. She is currently walking around the house whining, not really meowing, just whining with a few bellows.....then she is laying down and diggin her back claws in the carpet, tail in the air..... Even when I picked her up her back legs were digging into me. She has done that, like any other cat, with her fonts paws, kneading the palce she is going to lay, but never the back......and the whining is strange. Any ideas?

heat, not sure how you deal with her while in heat and not mating. Maybe give her soft warm blankets to make a bed in to nurture her hormones of needing kittens. After this cycle is through get her fixed to ease her internal stress. No matter what word used describe that it's still all so that the animal doesn't get pregnant.

Not sure why your vet didn't suggest that but it's still ok to get her done after this present cycle.

Our cat kneads blankets and sucks on them to nurture herself, she was fixed at about 10 months. She's always been an indoors cat, she's playful and happy. Getting her fixed didn't hurt her at a little bit older age.

Yes, definitely in heat.... the whining is a dead giveaway! It can be quite noisy... in one of our apartments there was an unspayed cat in the apartment next door and by the time we moved I was about ready to pay to fix the cat myself just so I could sleep!